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- Svensson, Jonas, 1969-
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Mind the Beard! : deference, purity and islamization of everyday life as micro-factors in a Salafi cultural epidemiology
- 2012
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Ingår i: Comparative Islamic Studies. - 1740-7125 .- 1743-1638. ; 8:1-2, s. 185-209
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Salafism has come to the fore of research on Islam, only recently. Some have even termed it a ‘new religious movement’. Faced with what appears to be a growing popularity of Salafism, researchers have made attempts at explaining the basic factors in this development. Most explanations have related to the popularity in particular social settings, and hence have mainly focused contextual factors of a political, social or economic character. From a theoretical perspective of a “cultural epidemiology”, the article suggests that complementary to factors on a macro- or meso-level, there are certain micro-factors related to general human psychological, cognitive and emotional dispositions that, at least hypothetically, are of interest to the main question: why is Salafism successful, and in so diverse contexts?
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- Svensson, Jonas, 1969-
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Minding the pandemic : A CSR perspective on patterns in Muslim religious responses to COVID-19
- 2021
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Ingår i: Approaching Religion. - : Approaching Religion. - 1799-3121. ; 11:2, s. 23-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses clusters of Muslim responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a theoretical framework provided by the cognitive science of religion. The responses include theological reflections on the origin, nature, and religious significance of the disease, religious justifications for restrictions on communal worship, apologetics in the light of COVID-19, and how aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic relate to issues of purity, impurity, and contagion. This article places the responses in a wider theoretical context that contributes to explaining their emergence as cultural representations, and, as a consequence, may promote further comparative research into responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in other religious traditions.
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- Svensson, Jonas, 1969-
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Moralpsykologi och religion
- 2017. - 4
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Ingår i: Den religiösa människan. - Stockholm : Natur och kultur. - 9789127819351 ; , s. 505-536
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Svensson, Jonas
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‘Muslims have instructions’ : HIV/AIDS, Modernity and Islamic Religious Education in Kisumu, Kenya.
- 2009
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Ingår i: Aids and Religious Practice in Africa. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004164000 ; , s. 189-219
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The article presents the discourse on HIV/AIDS within the formal school subject of Islamic Religious Education in Kisumu, Kenya. It related this discourse to a wider contemporary discourse on Islam and modernity, as well as to the local context of Muslims as a religious minority in Kisumu.
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- Svensson, Jonas, 1969-
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Muslimska perspektiv och attityder
- 2004
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Ingår i: Etik och genteknik. - Lund : Nordic Academic Press. - 9189116747 ; , s. 161-202
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Svensson, Jonas, 1969-
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Mänskliga rättigheter och islam
- 2005
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Ingår i: Religion och livsfrågor. - 0348-8918. ; :2
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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